* 1965 – Satoshi Tajiri, Japanese video game designer, founded Game Freak

On January 18, 1999, the Falcons upset the top-seeded 15 – 1 Vikings at Minnesota in the NFC Championship Game, 30 – 27 in an epic overtime victory.

* Friedrich Saemisch vs Aron Nimzowitsch, Copenhagen 1923, Queen's Indian Defence ( E18 ), 0 – 1 The " Immortal Zugzwang Game " sees Saemisch get tied up in knots.

* 1 BC – 8 AD: The Roman Game of kings is a game of which little is known, and which is more or less contemporary with the Latrunculi.

The 1940 Chicago Bears team holds the record for the biggest margin of victory in an NFL game ( playoff or regular season ) with a 73 – 0 victory over the Washington Redskins in the 1940 NFL Championship Game.

With the series tied after game six, the Indians went into the ninth inning of Game 7 with a 2 – 1 lead, but closer Jose Mesa allowed the Marlins to tie the game.

After being beaten in Game 3 7 – 1, the Cubs lost Game 4 when Smith, with the game tied 5 – 5, allowed a game-winning home run to Garvey in the bottom of the ninth inning.

In Game 5 the Cubs took a 3 – 0 lead into the 6th inning, and a 3 – 2 lead into the seventh with Sutcliffe ( who won the Cy Young Award that year ) still on the mound.

Florida shut the Cubs out in Game 5, but young pitcher Mark Prior led the Cubs in Game 6 as they took a 3 – 0 lead into the 8th inning and it was at this point when a now-infamous incident took place.

However, despite playing in the NFC Championship Game three consecutive years ( 1980 – 1982 ), the Cowboys did not reach the Super Bowl during the 1980s.

The Cowboys finished 12 – 4 in 1994, but missed the Super Bowl by losing to the San Francisco 49ers in the NFC Championship Game, 38 – 28.

The Washington Redskins, after wearing white exclusively in the ' 80s and ' 90s, including the 1982 NFC Championship Game ( having gone 3 – 0 in them during the regular season, during CBS ' pregame show, Jimmy " The Greek " Snyder actually invoked the blue jerseys in picking Dallas to win the game ), have since 2002 occasionally reverted to using their burgundy jerseys for second-half home games, but will still wear white against the Cowboys.

* Dilbert: the Board Game – 2006 ; by Hyperion Games ; A Dilbert-branded board game that was named one of Games magazine's Top 100 Games

* 1958 – " Greatest Game Ever Played " – Baltimore Colts defeat the New York Giants in the first ever National Football League sudden death overtime game at New York's Yankee Stadium.

* 1945 – Patti Deutsch, American actress and Match Game panelist

* 1932 – The Chicago Bears defeat the Portsmouth Spartans 9-0 in the first ever NFL Championship Game.

* Álex González ( 1998 – 2005 ) — Alex Gonzalez was one of the premier defensive shortstops in the game during his tenure with the Marlins, and provided a walk-off homerun in the 12th inning during Game 4 of the 2003 World Series.

The film is ultimately significant insofar as it displays the first enunciation of De Palma's style in all its major traits – voyeurism, guilt, and a hyper-consciousness of the medium are all on full display, not just as hallmarks, but built into this formal, material apparatus itself.

# Islamic alchemy CE – 1200, the Muslim conquest of Egypt ; development of alchemy by Jābir ibn Hayyān, al-Razi and others ; Jābir modifies Aristotle's theories ; advances in processes and apparatus.

Distillation apparatus of Zosimus, from Marcelin Berthelot, Collection des anciens alchimistes grecs ( 3 vol., Paris, 1887 – 1888 ).

Short path vacuum distillation apparatus with vertical condenser ( cold finger ), to minimize the distillation path ; 1: Still pot with stirrer bar / anti-bumping granules 2: Cold finger – bent to direct condensate 3: Cooling water out 4: cooling water in 5: Vacuum / gas inlet 6: Distillate flask / distillate.

In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century Germany, three pioneer physical educators – Johann Friedrich GutsMuths ( 1759 – 1839 ) and Friedrich Ludwig Jahn ( 1778 – 1852 ) – created exercises for boys and young men on apparatus they had designed that ultimately led to what is considered modern gymnastics.

Early references to the Golgi referred to it by various names including " Golgi – Holmgren apparatus ", " Golgi – Holmgren ducts ", and " Golgi – Kopsch apparatus ".

The history of the communist movement in Cambodia can be divided into six phases: the emergence of the Indochinese Communist Party ( ICP ), whose members were almost exclusively Vietnamese, before World War II ; the 10-year struggle for independence from the French, when a separate Cambodian communist party, the Kampuchean ( or Khmer ) People's Revolutionary Party ( KPRP ), was established under Vietnamese auspices ; the period following the Second Party Congress of the KPRP in 1960, when Saloth Sar ( Pol Pot after 1976 ) and other future Khmer Rouge leaders gained control of its apparatus ; the revolutionary struggle from the initiation of the Khmer Rouge insurgency in 1967 – 68 to the fall of the Lon Nol government in April 1975 ; the Democratic Kampuchea regime, from April 1975 to January 1979 ; and the period following the Third Party Congress of the KPRP in January 1979, when Hanoi effectively assumed control over Cambodia's government and communist party.

Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria (; ; 29 March 1899 – 23 December 1953 ) was a Soviet politician, Marshal of the Soviet Union and state security administrator, chief of the Soviet security and secret police apparatus ( NKVD ) under Joseph Stalin during World War II, and Deputy Premier in the postwar years ( 1946 – 1953 ).

* " Signalling system and apparatus therefor " ( Type 15 Teletype ) – filed July 1930, issued April 1933

English military engineer and mathematician Benjamin Robins ( 1707 – 1751 ) invented a whirling arm apparatus to determine drag and did some of the first experiments in aviation theory.

The conservative statesmen – the slaveholding gentry – retained control over the political apparatus.

The de Broglie – Bohm theory describes the physics in the Bell test experiments as follows: to understand the evolution of the particles, we need to set up a wave equation for both particles ; the orientation of the apparatus affects the wavefunction.

When the Germans arrive, Liz and Simon are initially captured, but then escape and succeed in helping young Frank Skinner carry out Traynor's orders to destroy the secret apparatus – a prototype laser weapon – before the Germans can seize it.

* 1892 – Thomas Edison receives a patent for a two-way telegraph.

* 1876 – Thomas Edison receives a patent for his mimeograph.

The case was legally resolved on October 19, 1973 when U. S. District Judge Earl R. Larson held the ENIAC patent invalid, ruling that the ENIAC derived many basic ideas from the Atanasoff – Berry Computer.

* 1885 – Japan's first patent is issued to the inventor of a rust-proof paint.

* 1851 – Isaac Singer is granted a patent for his sewing machine.

* 1942 – Actress Hedy Lamarr and composer George Antheil receive a patent for a Frequency-hopping spread spectrum communication system that later became the basis for modern technologies in wireless telephones and Wi-Fi.

* 1885 – Gottlieb Daimler is granted a German patent for his engine design.

* 1961 – Robert Noyce is granted a patent for an integrated circuit.

* 1876 – Alexander Graham Bell applies for a patent for the telephone, as does Elisha Gray.

* 1836 – Samuel Colt is granted a United States patent for the Colt revolver.

* 1842 – John Greenough is granted the first U. S. patent for the sewing machine.

* 1959 – Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments files the first patent for an integrated circuit.

* 1894 – Auguste and Louis Lumière patent the Cinematographe, a combination movie camera and projector.

* 1937 – Wallace H. Carothers receives a United States patent for nylon.

* 1991 – Elizabeth II, in her capacity as Queen of Australia, signs letters patent allowing Australia to become the first Commonwealth Realm to institute its own separate Victoria Cross award in its own honours system.

* 1948 – William Shockley files the original patent for the grown junction transistor, the first bipolar junction transistor.

* 1807 – Nicéphore Niépce is awarded a patent by Napoleon for the Pyréolophore, the world's first internal combustion engine, after it successfully powered a boat upstream on the river Saône in France.

* 1840 – Samuel Morse receives the patent for the telegraph.

* 1868 – Typewriter: Christopher Latham Sholes received a patent for an invention he called the " Type-Writer.

* 1947 – Thomas Goldsmith Jr. files patent for CRT Amusement device

* 1897 – Italian scientist Guglielmo Marconi obtains a patent for radio in London.

* 1896 – Guglielmo Marconi applies for a patent for his newest invention: the radio.

* 1887 – Herman Hollerith applies for US patent # 395, 791 for the ' Art of Applying Statistics ' – his punched card calculator.

* 1844 – Charles Goodyear receives a patent for vulcanization, a process to strengthen rubber.